Search results for "Jury" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • of competence to serve on a grand or petit jury or to vote in elections even ... are entitled to the right of trial by jury. Infractions are the least ...
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  • until World War II. The following year, a jury was added to the festival ... ;Grand Jury Prize This prize is awarded to the second best film screened ...
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  • The jury had first accepted her painting, The Mandolin Player, for ... without bothering about the eventual judgment of a jury." ...
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  • system is the frequent lack of a jury of peers, which is guaranteed in many common law jurisdictions. Inquisitorial systems tend to have something ...
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  • tried by the military judge alone or by a jury. A court-martial jury is called ... of the court judge the facts of the case, like a jury. They may also ...
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  • innocent--those are determinations to be made by the jury and/or the judge. Thus, according to that view, the proper ethical stance for the defense is ...
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  • matters after the event. Thus, although the jury in self-defense cases are ... be guilty of any offence. It is for the jury, as ordinary members of the ...
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  • The jury returned a verdict in favor of the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York and the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma finding current fair market ...
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  • themselves the power to select the judges, jury and accusateur public (Prosecutor). ... from across France. It was composed of a jury of twelve. This was an innovation ...
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  • had confessed, and he wanted to avoid a jury trial. Public sentiment surely ... plead guilty. In this way, Darrow avoided a jury trial which, due to the strong ...
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  • the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution requires jury trials and prohibits excessive bail and "cruel and unusual punishments." Similarly, ...
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  • and should not be presented to the jury (which had been excluded during ... Darrow asked the judge to bring in the jury and addressed the: ...
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  • of New York in 1735. In this instance of jury nullification, Zenger was ... the Press to refuse a subpoena from a grand jury by claiming freedom of the ...
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  • how so many professionals had been fooled, a grand jury launched its own investigation into conditions at the asylum, inviting Bly to assist. The jury ...
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  • had been introduced. Three years later, in 1850, a jury decided the Scotts should be freed under the Missouri doctrine of "once free, always free ...
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  • until they were commissioned to write Trial by Jury. was delighted with it, and Trial by Jury was composed in a matter of weeks. ...
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  • were arrested. In the aftermath, a grand jury indicted eight demonstrators ... The original eight defendants, indicted by the grand jury on March ...
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  • the Seventh Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial applies (a determination ... arbitrary remedies, and reinstating a jury system of citizens sworn on ...
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  • to the newly-built Saint Volodymir Cathedral. The jury, however, failed to appreciate the striking novelty of his works, and they were rejected. At ...
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  • fines and cruel and unusual punishment. Trial by jury and a ban on ex post facto laws were also rights granted. ===Prohibition of slavery=== ...
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  • were rejected. But in 1848, the Liberal Jury eased his anger, recognized ... medal, his third medal overall from the Salon jury. Courbet's ...
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  • executed Floyd without benefit of judge or jury. Kirchner, 63. Floyd's body was placed on public display in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. His funeral ...
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  • Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s grand jury after receiving a personal waiver, both by telephone and in writing, of her earlier confidential ...
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  • adversary is able to convince the judge or jury that his or her perspective ... courts may function with a judge and a jury: juries make findings of fact ...
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  • a judge or by indictment issued by a grand jury. As to felonies in Federal ... may be tried before a magistrate without a jury, while indictable offenses ...
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  • Justice Ward Hunt explicitly instructed the jury to deliver a guilty verdict. As the facts of the case were not is question, he declined to poll ...
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  • amount of which in most cases is determined by a jury, based on the harm done to the plaintiff. The court may also award punitive damages to punish ...
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  • * Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782-1785 * Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785-1789 * Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789-1795 ...
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  • Daniel Webster (1937). He is part of the Jury of the Damned summoned by ... Simpson," the Devil summons a "Jury of the Damned" to determine ...
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  • scene, a polygraph expert can supply the jury only with another opinion…” ... called in the trial, was a matter for the jury. #The polygraph "expert ...
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  • received a short sentence for tampering with the jury. Edward Doheny was acquitted in 1930 of attempting to bribe Fall. ==Aftermath== ...
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  • phrases, such as "ladies and gentlemen of the jury." Some court reporters use scopists to translate and edit their work. A scopist is ...
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  • Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (September 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007) was an Italian modernist film director whose films ...
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  • for his clients because they had been denied fair jury trials, based on their race. In Hurd v. Hodge (1948) 334 U.S. 24, Houston persuaded the ...
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  • Mérante she figured on the six-member select jury of the first annual competition for the Corps de ballet, held April 13, 1860. Her only choreographic ...
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  • #039;s key weapon. In a number of federal grand jury cases in 1931, Capone was charged with 22 counts of tax evasion and also 5,000 violations of the ...
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  • Little Elgin Theatre in Ottawa. The initial jury consisted of Hye Bossin, managing ... The 1973 awards were also criticized for the jury's choice of ...
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  • United States on June 8, 1998, when a grand jury charged him with killing five ... bin Laden was indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States District ...
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  • attorney knows is materially false to a judge or jury as if it were factual. Generally, the knowledge that the testimony is materially false must rise ...
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  • this was sufficient evidence for the jury to convict her on the conspiracy ... were not viewed sympathetically by the jury whatsoever. ...
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  • us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury." Many historians maintain that some of the grievances are exaggerated for purposes of ...
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  • Bill of Rights. For example, both require jury trials, contain a right to ... Court. Article Three also requires trial by jury in all criminal cases, defines ...
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  • of 1899, Anna made quite an impression on the jury, and it was announced that she would join the Imperial Ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre later ...
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  • there obtain an ethnically mixed and sympathetic jury. L. H. Thomas ... while Manitoba law specified a 12-man jury and assurances of bilingual ...
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  • 4881277 Tampa Man Killed Self Coroner's Jury States] The Evening Independent, June 28, 1926. Retrieved December 24, 2014. == External links == ...
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  • four times for treason before a grand jury indicted him. This is surprising, because the only physical evidence presented to the Grand Jury was ...
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  • so that when it came time for his trial, the jury found him innocent, liking him too much to convict him. Following that trial, Dewey and Fiorello ...
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  • the resulting two-hour trial, by a miners jury, an ad hoc local group of ... because it was in Indian Country and the jury was irregular. The new trial ...
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  • deprogramming attempt. In 1995, the jury awarded Scott $875,000 in compensatory damages and and $2,500,000 in punitive damages against Ross, ...
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  • From 2009-2015 he also participated as jury member for the Conflict Prevention Prize, awarded every year by the Fondation Chirac. ==Memoirs== ...
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